C130 - God bless Norton...................
The problem might just lie in the 'boot.ini' file. You'll need to find a way into DOS or use a Linux or similar boot disk to access this file, I think. Do you have an option at bootup to start in command prompt? I think the XP CDROM will help access the file too. You would need to set bios to boot first from CDROM to use that.
The file should normally look roughly like this
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
- where all the brackety things relate to your disk setup. Boot.ini normally
lives on the drive where you Windows XP is installed (most likely the C drive?) but could be elsewhere. The problem MAY be that Norton has screwed around with the file and may have added '/safeboot:minimal' after '/fastdetect' which will lock you in Safe mode.
Try and find a way to have a look at this file content, and if this is your case, remove the '/safeboot:minimal' and copy the file back into the original place.